Advanced Clinical Programme in Small Animal Cardiology
£3,497.00 (+VAT)
CPD Solutions Advanced Clinical Programmes™ are designed specifically for experienced vets who want engaging, high-level CPD that goes beyond simply updating knowledge.
Complete the full programme and you’ll undertake 40 hours of CPD, combining specialist-led online learning, case discussion, practical application and structured reflection. This format will be suitable for external CPD Hours required for maintenance of Advanced Practitioner status.
It’s a substantial, focused programme for more experienced clinicians, designed to help you think differently, refine your clinical decision-making and apply advanced learning directly to the cases you see in practice.
Advanced Clinical Programme in Small Animal Cardiology
Advanced cardiology CPD that brings ECGs, echocardiography and clinical decision-making together
Go further with ECGs and echocardiography, and develop the confidence to use your findings in clinical decision-making.
A structured advanced programme with European Specialist Mattia Basili, combining expert online learning with two highly practical attendance days.
You can also decide to complete the optional Clinical Impact Portfolio, giving you a structured way to demonstrate how your learning has influenced your clinical reasoning and patient management in practice.
Move beyond obtaining the measurements
Advanced cardiology is about more than recognising an ECG pattern or obtaining an echocardiographic measurement.
The real value comes from bringing your findings together, understanding what they mean for the patient in front of you and using them to make better-informed clinical decisions.
This Advanced Clinical Programme with Mattia Basili DVM MSc CertAVP(VC) PgCertVPS DipECVIM-CA FHEA MRCVS is designed to help experienced clinicians develop a more structured approach to ECG interpretation, arrhythmia management and echocardiography, and then apply that thinking to their clinical cases.
It’s an opportunity to develop your interpretation, refine your clinical reasoning and put advanced learning into practice
The Programme
You’ll work through the online learning before attending the practical course, spend two days developing your ECG and echocardiography skills with Mattia, and then continue to apply and discuss what you’ve learned afterwards.
The Programme includes:
-Advanced online teaching and case-based learning
-ECG interpretation and arrhythmia management
-Echocardiography teaching
-Two-day practical attendance course
-Follow-up learning and case discussion
Programme fee: £3,497 + VAT
Practical dates: 22-23 February 2027
CPD Solutions Training Centre, Studley, UK
Online learning begins in January 2027
What you’ll explore
Through teaching, realistic cases and discussion, you’ll develop your approach to:
-ECG interpretation
-Recognition of arrhythmias
-Clinical significance of ECG findings
-Arrhythmia management
-Echocardiographic image acquisition
-Measurements and interpretation
-Bringing echocardiographic findings together
-Relating your findings to the patient in front of you
-Using ECG and echocardiography to support clinical decision-making
-Applying advanced cardiology learning to cases in your own practice
The two-day practical
You will spend two days developing their practical cardiology skills with Mattia.
Day One focuses on developing your approach to ECG interpretation and the recognition and management of arrhythmias.
Day Two moves into advanced echocardiography, giving you time to develop image acquisition, measurements and interpretation.
The practical days give you the opportunity to consolidate the principles you’ve learned online, develop your skills with specialist guidance and consider how your findings influence real clinical decisions.
Apply the learning in practice
The programme is designed to continue after the formal practical teaching.
You’ll take your learning back into practice and use it while assessing cardiac cases, interpreting investigations and making clinical decisions.
Follow-up discussion gives you the opportunity to explore questions, review cases and consider how your interpretation and decision-making are developing as you apply your learning.
Optional Clinical Impact Portfolio
After completing your learning, you can choose to take the next step by submitting a Clinical Impact Portfolio.
Using the CPD Solutions Clinical Impact Framework™, you’ll critically reflect on how the programme has influenced your clinical reasoning and decision-making through a short case log and a 2,000-word reflective case report.
The portfolio is entirely optional and does not need to be selected when you book your programme.
Portfolio submission and assessment fee: £295 + VAT
This includes review, marking and feedback.
Portfolios meeting the required Clinical Impact standard receive CPD Solutions recognition and entry on the Clinical Impact Register.
Who is this programme for?
This is advanced CPD for experienced small animal vets who already have a good grounding in cardiology and want to take their interpretation and decision-making further.
It will be particularly relevant if you are:
– An experienced GP vet with a strong interest in cardiology
– A PgCert or CertAVP holder
– An RCVS Advanced Practitioner
– An experienced clinician looking for stimulating CPD beyond certificate level
– Already using ECG or echocardiography and keen to develop greater depth and confidence
40 hours of CPD when you complete the whole programme
Your Clinical Lead
Mattia Basili DVM MSc CertAVP(VC) PgCertVPS DipECVIM-CA, FHEA, MRCVS
Mattia is a European Specialist in Veterinary Cardiology, having completed his ECVIM residency at the University of Liverpool and becoming a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Cardiology) in 2022. He also holds an MSc in Veterinary Professional Studies, with experience spanning first-opinion practice, referral cardiology and university teaching. His clinical interests include all aspects of small animal cardiology, with particular interests in congenital heart disease and interventional cardiology.